Mitel 6800 Series SIP Phone Release 4.2.0 Administrator Guide
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DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) SERVER PRE-CACHING SUPPORT
The IP phones now support the use of a local DNS host file to resolve DNS queries, and supports
pre-provisioning of DNS SRV records. This feature allows administrators to configure the phone
to download a text file which contains persistent DNS “A record” hostname to IP address
mappings. In addition, support for persistent DNS “SRV records” has been added to permit
SRV based high availability of services.
There are two methods used to configure DNS pre-caching on the IP phone:
•
Configure a unix style “host” file used instead of a DNS “A query” to resolve hostnames to
IP addresses. The host file is downloaded and cached on the IP phone.
•
Configure DNS “SRV queries” for geographic redundancy and failover. The configured SRV
entries are used to pre-load the DNS cache on the IP phone.
Both these methods are configurable using the configuration files only, and are primarily
intended for use when a third party hosting provider delivers SIP services but does not have
local access or control of the LAN side DNS infrastructure.
CONFIGURING DNS “HOST FILE” PRE-CACHING FROM THE CONFIGU-
RATION SERVER
The DNS host file must reside on the same server as the configuration files (
startup.cfg/.tuz
,
etc.) and the filename to download is specified within the configuration.
Use the following parameter to configure the phone to use the host file for host IP address
lookups.
For the specific parameter you can set in the configuration files, see Appendix A, the section,
“DNS Host File”
on
page A-285
.
The following procedure is an example of how to use the “sip dns host file” parameter to
configure DNS lookup pre-caching from the configuration server.
CONFIGURING “DNS HOST” PRE-CACHING
1.
Using a text-based editing application, create a blank text file
2.
Enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers in your local network. For example:
1.2.3.4 server1
5.6.7.8 server2
9.0.1.2 server3
Note:
Time-to-Live (TTL) used in this feature is hard-coded for each server and not
configurable.
CONFIGURATION FILES
Note:
Ensure each line uses a Carriage Return (CR) or Carriage Line
Feed (CRLF) to terminate the line.
Summary of Contents for 6867i Premium
Page 1: ...Mitel 6800 Series SIP Phones 58014473 REV00 RELEASE 4 2 0 ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE ...
Page 21: ...Chapter 1 OVERVIEW ...
Page 52: ...Chapter 2 CONFIGURATION INTERFACE METHODS ...
Page 71: ...Chapter 3 ADMINISTRATOR OPTIONS ...
Page 154: ...Chapter 4 CONFIGURING NETWORK AND SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL SIP FEATURES ...
Page 262: ...Chapter 5 CONFIGURING OPERATIONAL FEATURES ...
Page 579: ...Chapter 6 CONFIGURING ADVANCED OPERATIONAL FEATURES ...
Page 654: ...Chapter 7 ENCRYPTED FILES ON THE IP PHONE ...
Page 660: ...Chapter 8 UPGRADING THE FIRMWARE ...
Page 669: ...Chapter 9 TROUBLESHOOTING ...
Page 699: ...Appendix A CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS ...
Page 1003: ...Appendix B CONFIGURING THE IP PHONE AT THE ASTERISK IP PBX ...
Page 1007: ...Appendix C SAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILES ...
Page 1023: ...Appendix D SAMPLE BLF SOFTKEY SETTINGS ...
Page 1027: ...Appendix E SAMPLE MULTIPLE PROXY SERVER CONFIGURATION ...
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